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Two Roads Diverged in a Wood, and I ... I Couldn't Believe I Was in a Roadless Area Deal to shrink roadless areas in Idaho approved by Bush admin		02 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 4:53 AM on 02 Sep 2008 An Idaho-specific plan meant to replace President Clinton's national roadless rule in the state was agreed to Friday by the Bush administration, timber interests, and a few environmental groups. If approved by the Secretary of Agriculture after a public-comment period, the revised rule would protect just 3.3 million ac ...
Topics: Idaho, logging, mining, national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Hoot and Holler Feds axe acreage of spotted owl habitat		13 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 11:26 AM on 13 Aug 2008 The amount of old-growth forest designated as critical habitat for the northern spotted owl was slashed 23 percent, or 1.6 million acres, by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday. One might think that means that spotted owls are doing well for themselves, but no: the spotted owl population is dropping by 4 percent each year. Despite widespread efforts to protect their Northwest old-growth home, the ...
Topics: endangered species, habitat loss, logging, national forests, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

One More for the Road Roadless rule shot down, again		13 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 8:09 AM on 13 Aug 2008 The Clinton-era "roadless rule" has been declared invalid by U.S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer. The rule, which prohibits development on 58.5 million acres of national forest, has had a long and rocky past. Brimmer first put the kibosh on it in 2003, and while an appeal was pending, the Bush administration switched it out for an alternative that required states to petition the feds for forest prot ...
Topics: litigation, national forests, news, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Meet the New Rules, Same as the Old Rules Enviros not fond of new forest management rules		11 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:40 AM on 11 Apr 2008 The U.S. Forest Service has released new regulations for forest management that are remarkably similar to regulations that a federal judge struck down last year. Under the new rules, species' sustainability will not be evaluated individually; instead, the focus will be on overall habitat. A coalition of green groups have sued, saying the rules loosen protections for wildlif ...
Topics: national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

The Roads to Know Where? California sues Forest Service over road building, drilling plans		29 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 8:17 AM on 29 Feb 2008 California sued the U.S. Forest Service this week, claiming that it violated federal environmental laws and ignored state policies prohibiting road building in roadless areas of national forests. At stake are over 500,000 acres in four national forests in the state that the Bush administration plans to open up to road building, as well as 52,000 acres slated for oil drilli ...
Topics: California, litigation, national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Ducking Donald U.S. forest official will not be jailed over fish-killing flame retardant		28 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 3:09 PM on 28 Feb 2008 The U.S. Forest Service turned in a court-ordered environmental analysis of a fish-killing flame retardant 2 1/2 years late, and only after the agency's top official was threatened with incarceration for contempt of court. But the USFS did ultimately conduct the environmental review of ammonium phosphate -- which was dropped on an Oregon fire in 2002 and subsequently killed ...
Topics: litigation, national forests, news, politics, toxics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Out of the Trying Plan, Into the Ire Bush admin unveils new plan for Tongass forest in Alaska, ticks off enviros		28 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:02 AM on 28 Jan 2008 The Bush administration unveiled a new management plan on Friday for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, which encompasses nearly 17 million acres of coastal rainforest. The Tongass is the largest national forest in the U.S., a rallying point for enviros who want to protect all remaining roadless areas in national forests. The new plan, to be in ef ...
Topics: deforestation, national forests, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

You've Got Jail Forest Service official threatened with jail time over fish-killing fire retardant		14 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 6:17 AM on 14 Jan 2008 Mark Rey, the undersecretary of agriculture in charge of the U.S. Forest Service, has been threatened with jail time or house arrest for his agency's attempts to continue using a flame retardant on forest fires that's toxic to fish. In 2002, fire retardant was dropped on a blaze in central Oregon, killing about 20,000 fish. Soon after, green group Forest Service Em ...
Topics: litigation, national forests, news, United States, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Hydra Crimes and Misdemeanors Bush admin backs off appeal of nixed forest-management rules, to release new ones		09 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 7:12 AM on 09 Jan 2008 The Bush administration has backed off of an appeal of a March 2007 ruling that overturned controversial management rules for national forests. The struck-down rules allowed national forest managers to approve logging, mining, cell-phone towers, and other commercial projects without undergoing environmental reviews and were found to violate the Endange ...
Topics: litigation, national forests, news, United States, US Forest Service (all these topics)

If at First You Don't Succeed, Keep It Pretty Much the Same U.S. Forest Service re-revises forest-management rules		20 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
If at First You Don't Succeed, Keep It Pretty Much the Same U.S. Forest Service re-revises forest-management rules In March, a federal judge put the kibosh on the U.S. Forest Service's revision of forest-management rules that had directed local managers to give economic concerns as high a priority as ecological health and removed requirements that managers ensure viable populations of native wildlife. H ...
Topics: national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Offset mania Can't we offset something other than carbon?	David Roberts	25 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Lordy, this is getting out of hand: Under the agreement announced Wednesday, the Forest Service and the National Forest Foundation will allow individuals or groups to make charitable contributions that will be used to plant trees and do other work to improve national forests. ... Under the new program, known as the Carbon Capital Fund, consumers can 'offset' their carbon emissions by investing in projects on national forests to plant trees and improve water qu ...
Topics: carbon offsets, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, national forests (all these topics)

Truth in the Tongass Gathering data in the U.S.' largest temperate rainforest a heroic and necessary task	Erik Hoffner	03 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Hiking part of the Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska a few summers ago, I was utterly wowed, but knowing that it accounts for nearly one-third of the old-growth temperate rain forest left in the world seemed incredibly incongruent with the fact that my government was working so hard to wreck it (thanks to some truly absurd subsidies). An excellent story in the new National Geographic retells the tale and shines light on new efforts aimed at allowing the ...
Topics: Alaska, deforestation, logging, national forests, rainforests (all these topics)

Forest Eviction Judge tosses out Bush administration's forest-management rules		02 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Forest Eviction Judge tosses out Bush administration's forest-management rules Heads-up to the Bush administration: You can't always get what you want. (As always, the Rolling Stones know best.) On Friday, a federal judge tossed out the administration's revised forest-management rules, issued in 2005, which allowed national forest managers to approve logging, mining, cell-phone towers, and other commerc ...
Topics: national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Come to a virtual Tongass public meeting Grill the feds without leaving your armchair	Lisa Hymas	21 Mar 2007	Gristmill
The Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska is the world's largest temperate rainforest, encompassing almost 17 million acres and oodles of charismatic megafauna. The Forest Service has a new draft management plan for the forest, and a spanking new draft environmental impact statement to go along with it. The EIS lists alternatives ranging from, on the high side, chopping down 421 million board feet of timber a year from the forest, to, on the low(er) side, essentiall ...
Topics: Alaska, deforestation, national forests, Wilderness Society (all these topics)

Tender Loving Caribou Judge sides with caribou, bans snowmobiles from some Idaho national forests		27 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Tender Loving Caribou Judge sides with caribou, bans snowmobiles from some Idaho national forests Mountain caribou celebrated last week as a judge banned snowmobiles from a nearly 470-square-mile caribou recovery zone in the Idaho Panhandle National Forests. The ban will hold unless the U.S. Forest Service can develop a winter recreation strategy that would enable noisy, polluting vehicles and ...
Topics: Idaho, national forests, news, outdoor recreation, wildlife (all these topics)

The Roadless Rule Is Dead! Long Live the Roadless Rule! Judge puts Clinton's roadless policy back in action		21 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
The Roadless Rule Is Dead! Long Live the Roadless Rule! Judge puts Clinton's roadless policy back in action In a Three Stooges-esque poke to the eyes of the Bush administration (nyuk nyuk!), U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Laporte yesterday reinstated a Clinton-era ban on road construction, logging, mining, and other development in roadless national forest areas. In May 2005, the Bushies replaced ...
Topics: land stewardship, national forests, news, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Smokey Robbin's On Urban-style crime in national forests seems to be on the rise		03 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Smokey Robbin's On Urban-style crime in national forests seems to be on the rise In some parts of the U.S., being a forest ranger isn't the cushy job you might imagine. Far from keeping cartoon bears away from picnic baskets, rangers have been confronting a rising tide of urban-style crime: everything from domestic violence and drunken driving to armed robbery and marijuana culti ...
Topics: environmental justice, national forests, news, politics, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Take a Road Off, Arnie Schwarzenegger asks feds to protect roadless national forests in California		12 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Take a Road Off, Arnie Schwarzenegger asks feds to protect roadless national forests in California California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) today asked the feds to keep all 4.4 million roadless acres of national forest in his state off-limits to logging, road-building, and other development. President Bush in 2004 canceled President Clinton's rule protecting roadless national-forest areas; now it ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, national forests, news (all these topics)

Biscuits 'n' Crazy Forest Service will auction off Oregon timber burned by Biscuit fire		09 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Biscuits 'n' Crazy Forest Service will auction off Oregon timber burned by Biscuit fire Enviros have lost a four-year legal battle to keep logging out of Oregon's Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, burned four years ago by the massive Biscuit fire. A federal appeals court has cleared the U.S. Forest Service to auction off rights today to about 400 acres of timber in the forest. The governors ...
Topics: logging, national forests, news, Oregon, US Forest Service (all these topics)

The Forest Service Is Dead; Long Live the Forest Service! It's time for conservationists to collaborate with an agency they've long demonized	Mitch Friedman	28 Feb 2006	Soapbox
In 1982, Earth First!er Dave Foreman used form letters to blitz the U.S. Forest Service with administrative appeals, blocking over 100 timber sales that threatened roadless areas in several Western states. There's a new ray of hope among forest activists. Photo: iStockphoto. This act of paper monkeywrenching sums up the relati ...
Topics: deforestation, logging, national forests, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Truce Almighty It's time for conservationists to make common cause with the Forest Service		28 Feb 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Earth First!, logging, national forests, US Forest Service (all these topics)

In the Line of Wildfire Could a Western wildfire be the country's next Katrina?	Jeff Nachtigal	15 Feb 2006	Main Dish
At the end of summer in southern Oregon's Cascade foothills, when trees and brush have turned tinder dry and thunderstorms regularly roll overhead, Millie Chatterton and her neighbors start thinking about the lightning strike that could touch off disaster. The Biscuit burns in 2002. Photo: USFWS. Chatterton can't forget the afternoon in 1987 when she walked out of a grocery store in her ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, national forests, Oregon, Poverty and the Environment, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Fighting Fire with Ire How one group is keeping communities safe from wildfire	Jeff Nachtigal	15 Feb 2006	Main Dish
Hayfork, Calif., is a one-highway town. A small collection of storefronts and a post office hug Highway 3, a two-lane strip that curls through the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. A decade ago, this was a major route for logging trucks. These days, a few trucks still rumble through, but the road is mostly quiet, mirroring the decline this Northern California outpost has gone through since ...
Topics: California, environmental justice, national forests, Oregon, Poverty and the Environment, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Can't Hear the Forest for the ORVs Forest Service unveils new off-road vehicle rules		03 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Can't Hear the Forest for the ORVs Forest Service unveils new off-road vehicle rules The U.S. Forest Service says its new off-road vehicle (ORV) policy, announced yesterday, will set limits on where the noisy, pollution-spewing machines can be used in national forests -- but conservationists say that's not good enough. The new rule sets no overarching standard for ORV use in the nation's 155 n ...
Topics: national forests, news, outdoor recreation, US Forest Service (all these topics)

On the Roadless Again State leaders sue feds to bring back 'roadless rule'		01 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
On the Roadless Again State leaders sue feds to bring back "roadless rule" Top officials from three Western states are suing the Bush administration in hopes of bringing back a rule banning road building on 58.5 million acres of national forests. The attorneys general of California and New Mexico, along with Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski (D), filed suit this week in federal court, contending that the administration ...
Topics: national forests, news, politics (all these topics)

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